Big things are always expected from Marvel Studios at the San Diego Comic-Con International; yesterday was no exception, and boy did they deliver the goods once again. Opening the panel to a packed Hall H, Marvel’s President of Production Kevin Feige got things underway by announcing that the studio has four ‘Phase Two’ movies in […]

Our weekly round up of the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… Having recorded a solid $160m opening weekend in North America, Christopher Nolan’s Batman swansong The Dark Knight Rises crossed the $225m mark on Thursday and is currently the fourth highest-grossing domestic release of 2012 behind Marvel’s The Avengers ($615m), The […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Martin Hill, and Paul Butterworth; visual effects producers Michelle Eisenreich, and Unjoo Byars; executive producer Jason Bath, creative director Ahmet Ahmet, 3D cg supervisor Lee Nelson, 3D design lead Dong Ho Lee and Territory Founder / Director David Sheldon-Hicks… “I worked with Ridley [Scott] […]

This past weekend it was revealed that the DC Comics super-villain Deadshot would appear in The CW’s upcoming live-action series Arrow, and now TV Guide has announced that Canadian actor Michael Rowe has secured the role of the expert marksman, who will make his debut in the third episode, entitled ‘The Lone Gunman’. Meanwhile, speaking […]

This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox this morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of all Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen […]

Luke Owen gives us the lowdown on X-Men: Days of Future Past and looks at the possibilities for Fox’s newly-announced movie adaptation… Yesterday saw the announcement of the title to the X-Men: First Class sequel – X-Men: Days of Future Past. This didn’t come to a surprise to many as it has been rumoured for […]

Considering that 1998’s The X-Files and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe were both modest financial successes for 20th Century Fox, it’s a little surprising that the studio hasn’t decided to reunite David Duchovny’s Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson’s Dana Scully for a third big screen outing – particularly when everyone involved appears keen […]

Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Avengers 2, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Dark Knight Rises, Justice League, The Amazing Spider-Man, Kick-Ass 2, Arrow, Daredevil, Silver Surfer, The Rocketeer, The Toxic Avenger and more… Speaking to the Japanese […]

Our weekly round up of the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… The Dark Knight Rises became the third film of the year to cross the $400m mark in North America on Friday and will overtake The Hunger Games this weekend to become the second-biggest domestic release of 2012 behind The Avengers […]

Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… The big story this past week was of course the announcement from Disney that Joss Whedon will return to write and direct a sequel to this year’s superhero smash hit The Avengers, which doesn’t really come as much of […]